TITO GOBBI Pagliacci [Film 1948] (DVD, Bel Canto) Highlights Guglielmo Tell 1947

Description: “The fiery performance, conducted by Giuseppe Morelli with the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, knocks all recent digital efforts into a cocked hat. A few cinematic liberties seem permissible to me and this is surely one of the best films of an opera."Tully Potter, International Opera Collector “Tito Gobbi is another singer whose art is well preserved on film. Pagliacci features him as both Tonio and Silvio and was an early attempt to film on location, pre-echoing Zeffirelli in this work. The sultry Gina Lollobrigida was engaged to play Nedda to Onelia Fineschi’s excellent singing. Oddly the baritone Afro Poli mimed Canio to the dramatic tenor Galliano Masini’s superbly accented singing (‘Vesti la giubba’ impassioned and long-breathed). Gobbi gives an object-lesson in line and style in the Prologue, then goes way over the top as Tonio before adding a handsomely sung and convincingly acted Silvio. Giuseppe Morelli conducts Rome forces.”Alan Blyth, Gramophone “In a virtuoso double-dip, Tonio and Silvio are both Tito Gobbi, who even shares the screen with himself in one shot. His Tonio is tousled, mentally retarded, and morally warped; his Silvio cuts a dashing figure with slicked-back hair and a Clark Gable mustache. Vocally, Gobbi differentiates his characterizations by subtleties of diction, tone color, phrasing, and texture (Silvio light and almost crooning, Tonio rough and forthright). “Afro Poli’s leonine, tortured Canio visually embodies the steel-lunged and dangerous-sounding voice of Galliano Masini. Soprano Onelia Fineschi is likewise supplanted by actress Gina Lollobrigida. Adept at lip-synching, La Lollobrigida also makes it clear why every man is dripping with lust for Nedda."David McKee, The Opera Quarterly CAST Tito Gobbi................Tonio, the hunchback / Silvio, the handsome villagerGina Lollobrigida.....Nedda, wife of Canio Onelia Fineschi......Nedda [singing voice]Afro Poli....................Canio, master of the troupe Galliano Masini......Canio [singing voice]Filippo Morucci........Beppe, troupe harlequin Gino Sinimberghi...Beppe [singing voice]

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